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    #1

    Firefox doesn't find Real Player

    I have installed Real Player 10 from

    realplay-10.1.0.3725-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin

    but Firefox doesn't seem to know about it. There is no realplayer entry under aboutlugins and I cannot listen to a musical snippet from amazon.com.

    What to do? Thanks.
    'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain
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    #2
    Re: Firefox doesn't find Real Player

    Have you installed any RealPlayer plugins?
    For external use only.
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      #3
      Re: Firefox doesn't find Real Player

      Originally posted by SheeEttin
      Have you installed any RealPlayer plugins?
      Not that I know of. Is there a difference between Real Player and a Real Player plugin?
      'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain
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        #4
        Re: Firefox doesn't find Real Player

        Yeah, Firefox needs the plugin to embed RealPlayer.
        Normally, Firefox prompts you to install plugins on encountering a page with embedded media...
        Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a plugin in the repos.
        For external use only.
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          #5
          Re: Firefox doesn't find Real Player

          One can also avoid RealPlayer, and instead, install helix-player and mozilla-helix-player.
          Windows no longer obstructs my view.
          Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
          "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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            Re: Firefox doesn't find Real Player

            http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=2882.0
            Help the New Guy > Installing RealPlayer, by FireFighter

            You can probably get it from that thread--several good ideas & solutions posted there.
            An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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              Re: Firefox doesn't find Real Player

              Originally posted by Qqmike
              http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=2882.0
              Help the New Guy > Installing RealPlayer, by FireFighter

              You can probably get it from that thread--several good ideas & solutions posted there.
              That was what I needed. One of the suggestions there was to go to

              https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...llationMethods

              which held the key. I had to go thru the declaration of the plugin to Firefox which is described there. Now why in ^&*( does Firefox sometimes find plugins with no trouble and sometimes needs manual configuration? Is this because of Firefox or because of Linux?

              In any case, thanks to all!
              'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain
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                Re: Firefox doesn't find Real Player

                Originally posted by joneall
                Now why in ^&*( does Firefox sometimes find plugins with no trouble and sometimes needs manual configuration? Is this because of Firefox or because of Linux?
                I think its both, and maybe from the plugin istself.
                these days most plugins are downloaded to usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, but sometimes its usr/lib/firefox/plugins and sometimes usr/lib/navigator/plugins or even usr/lib/netscape/plugins a leftover from when netscape was a primary browser for linux.
                realplayer often times does not load its plugin to these directories though and instead creates a symbolic link from usr/lib/realplay(insert version here) to them.
                I think in this case the issue might be more from realplayer though as for the longest time it relied on the usr/lib/navigator/plugins and or usr/lib/netscape/plugins directories, I know flash and java usually do a good job if you use a manual install but I am not too sure with real
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                  #9
                  Re: Firefox doesn't find Real Player

                  The "mozilla-mplayer-plugin" package seems better on Firefox, especially if you run 64-bit.
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                    #10
                    Re: Firefox doesn't find Real Player

                    Originally posted by dibl
                    The "mozilla-mplayer--plugin" package seems better on Firefox, especially if you run 64-bit.
                    well yes it would help on 64 bit based computers
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                      #11
                      Re: Firefox doesn't find Real Player

                      Agree with you guys. At the same time, it's good knowledge/skill to know how to hook up the plug-in yourself, manually, which, when I did it once for sun-java JRE, amounted to locating directories/files and making the correct symbolic link. As I'm sure you guys know all too well! (Yes, I did find out that you can get the sun Java example that comes WITH the plug-in link made for you This goes back to, I think, 6.10 or such.)
                      An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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                        Re: Firefox doesn't find Real Player

                        I would also strongly encourage to install either "mozilla-mplayer" or "mozilla-plugin-vlc" instead. (personally prefering the mozilla plugin because of it's configurability and possibility to save the media files to local disk)
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                          Re: Firefox doesn't find Real Player

                          Originally posted by joneall
                          I had to go thru the declaration of the plugin to Firefox which is described there.
                          There is no where on that page that uses the term declaration, declare, etc. Could you please point out what worked for you? Thanks.
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